ARTICLES ABOUT BREW PUB BY DATE - PAGE 5

Here's something else to celebrate during Bethlehem's 15th Musikfest: the vitality of regional specialty brewers. In the Lehigh Valley, three companies brew beer at on-site locations: Weyerbacher Brewing Co. Inc., Easton; Old Lehigh Brewing Co., Allentown, and the newest, Bethlehem Brew Works (formerly the Bethlehem Beer Works), Bethlehem. This marks an important next step for the region's brewers. Most of the early examples of Lehigh Valley microbeers were brewed at other locations on a contract basis.

Bethlehem Beer Works has gone flat, but Bethlehem Brew Works is open for business. Bethlehem Beer Works, the brew pub and restaurant that opened three months ago in The Shoppes at Main Street Commons, this week changed its name to Bethlehem Brew Works after the owners of a Boston-based microbrewery claimed ownership of the Beer Works name. Bethlehem Brew Works co-owner Peg Fegley said Wednesday she received a letter last month from a Boston attorney representing Slesar Brothers Brewing Co., which owns and operates the popular Boston Beer Works.

To the Editor: Thomas Jefferson considered the Tenth Amendment to be "the foundation of the Constitution." In a recent attempt to bring home his share of federal pork, U.S. Rep. Paul McHale showed his ignorance of the foundation of the Constitution by including in this year's highway bill some $7 million for Allentown's Lehigh Landing. When The Wall Street Journal exposed McHale, his flacks at The Morning Call defended McHale in an editorial. Will McHale and The Morning Call argue this is a transportation bill and the pork is justified by the Constitution's Commerce Clause?

Will Allentown's Lehigh Landing project become America's next Steamtown? That's a concern of the riverfront development's backers after a damning editorial Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal, one of America's most influential newspapers. The editorial portrays Lehigh Landing as an egregious example of pork barrel politics in a $218.3 billion House transportation bill. The bill earmarks $7 million in federal funds for road and other infrastructure work at the riverfront site, an old industrial area being converted into a mix of commercial and tourist facilities.

When he graduates Lehigh University with a biology degree this year, Jeff Fegley says, he'll have the coolest job out there. He'll be the master brewer at Bethlehem Beer Works, the restaurant and brew pub set to open April 4 in the Shoppes at Main Street Commons. Fegley's older brother, Richard of Sellersville, and mother, Peg of Warrington, co-own the new restaurant and pub. Both quit their jobs to manage the restaurant. "It'll be more interesting than working in a lab," Jeff Fegley said.

The copper vat is visible through two 10-foot wide windows in the narrow room, giving a clear view of how the specialty beers are made in Easton's only microbrewery. That is but one touch at the Weyerbacher BrewPub, 20 S. 6th St., an adjunct to Daniel Weirback's Weyerbacher Brewing Co. The other eyecatchers are the exposed brick wall once covered with plaster and the original bead board on parts of the walls. The pub opened this week, and is, for now, the only brew pub in the Lehigh Valley.

Beer lovers can relax. Bethlehem Beer Works will brew beer on Main Street. Bethlehem's zoning code doesn't mention beer brewing, which is why the anchor of the Shoppes at Main Street Commons had to ask the Zoning Hearing Board for permission. Nobody opposed the request. The brewery was approved Wednesday as an accessory use to the primary use of a restaurant, with two restrictions: All deliveries must be done at the rear of the building, and the use must stay within the state Liquor Control Board's definition of a brewery pub. Distinguishing it from a microbrewery, Bethlehem Beer Works proprietor Richard Fegley described his restaurant as a brew pub. The difference is the percentage of the beer it will make that'll be sold outside the restaurant.

Vacant for four years, the former Orr's building in Bethlehem will be home to a microbrewery pub, a vineyard shop and two sports specialty stores by the end of the year. The Bethlehem Beer Works, Aardvark Sports Shop of Bethlehem, Franklin Hill Winery of Lower Mount Bethel Township, and The Sports Connection of Emmaus have signed letters of intent to occupy space in the Main Street building, according to Ashley Development Corp. Eighteen spaces are available in the proposed retail complex, and Ashley Development, which is coordinating the leases, feels confident about prospects for filling the remaining 14 spaces, said spokesman Kim Keyser Thursday.

Children zoomed down slides, patted the animals in the petting zoo and bounced in and out of an inflatable castle while their parents sipped half pints of lager and lingered over lunch at the White Mouse Pub on Britain's Isle of Wight. In England's industrial midlands, Sue Steed cradled a sleeping baby in her arms as she managed the Milestone Tavern. But the baby wasn't hers. He belonged to a young couple who had come to the Bourneville-area pub for dinner. "He was getting restless and was crying.